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Old 12-13-2005, 08:51 AM
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Default Jim O'Rourke hit .250 at age 54 !!

Posted By: Glenn

Yes, but dictionaries employ usage panels, composed of many experts of their respective fields, vintage baseball included. Furthermore, even if this were not the case, I've never heard a single academician claim that a decade is "a ten year period beginning with a year ending in the numeral 1," rather they use it to mean



Honestly, I'm just curious what Jay's source of the academic meaning of the word is.

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